[cubicle67]

I grew up owning a Vic 20 (which I still have, by the way), and my friends all had different types of computers; Tandy, Amstrad, Sinclair, BBC, C64, Atari etc. Can't even remember them all now, and they were all different but it was great. Learned to programme just about all of them and had a ball.

Many many happy memories of those times

[Edit: thinking about it now, the one thing that was missing was one-upmanship. I don't remember any comparison between machines for the purposes of deciding which was 'better'. We were just happy to have something; didn't matter what brand it was]